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534 points BlueFalconHD | 5 comments | | HN request time: 1.136s | source

I managed to reverse engineer the encryption (refered to as “Obfuscation” in the framework) responsible for managing the safety filters of Apple Intelligence models. I have extracted them into a repository. I encourage you to take a look around.
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bawana ◴[] No.44484214[source]
Alexandra Ocasio Cortez triggers a violation?

https://github.com/BlueFalconHD/apple_generative_model_safet...

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mmaunder ◴[] No.44484284[source]
As does:

   "(?i)\\bAnthony\\s+Albanese\\b",
    "(?i)\\bBoris\\s+Johnson\\b",
    "(?i)\\bChristopher\\s+Luxon\\b",
    "(?i)\\bCyril\\s+Ramaphosa\\b",
    "(?i)\\bJacinda\\s+Arden\\b",
    "(?i)\\bJacob\\s+Zuma\\b",
    "(?i)\\bJohn\\s+Steenhuisen\\b",
    "(?i)\\bJustin\\s+Trudeau\\b",
    "(?i)\\bKeir\\s+Starmer\\b",
    "(?i)\\bLiz\\s+Truss\\b",
    "(?i)\\bMichael\\s+D\\.\\s+Higgins\\b",
    "(?i)\\bRishi\\s+Sunak\\b",
   
https://github.com/BlueFalconHD/apple_generative_model_safet...

Edit: I have no doubt South African news media are going to be in a frenzy when they realize Apple took notice of South African politicians. (Referring to Steenhuisen and Ramaphosa specifically)

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echelon ◴[] No.44484709[source]
Apple's 1984 ad is so hypocritical today.

This is Apple actively steering public thought.

No code - anywhere - should look like this. I don't care if the politicians are right, left, or authoritarian. This is wrong.

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avianlyric ◴[] No.44484841[source]
Why is this wrong? Applying special treatment to politically exposed persons has been standard practice in every high risk industry for a very long time.

The simple fact is that people get extremely emotional about politicians, politicians both receive obscene amounts of abuse, and have repeatedly demonstrated they’re not above weaponising tools like this for their own goals.

Seems perfectly reasonable that Apple doesn’t want to be unwittingly draw into the middle of another random political pissing contest. Nobody comes out of those things uninjured.

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1. tjwebbnorfolk ◴[] No.44485015[source]
I can Google for any of these people, and I can get real results with real information.
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2. avianlyric ◴[] No.44485344[source]
You would hope that search would be a politically safe space to operate. But politicians find a way to ruin everything for short term political gain.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/republicans-in-c...

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3. SV_BubbleTime ◴[] No.44486204[source]
I would hope!

But no one actually believes Google is politically neutral do they?

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4. avianlyric ◴[] No.44498731{3}[source]
Evidence suggests they’re about as neutral as you could hope.

It’s not like Google search is some kind special tool used only by the elite. It’s pretty trivial for political scientists to pump queries into Google and measure the results. Which is exactly what many have done.

There’s been plenty of independent research into political bias of Google search results, and plenty of lawsuits that have gone fishing via discovery for internal evidence of bias. As yet, nobody has found a smoking gun, or any real evidence of search result bias (on a political axis, the same can be said for commercial gain).

There are many problems with Google, and Google search. Google as an org isn’t politically neutral (although I have no idea how they could be). But political bias in their results isn’t one of those problems.

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5. SV_BubbleTime ◴[] No.44502524{4}[source]
Maybe you haven’t followed…

The CEO hosted a cry session about broken hearts and how they as a company would resist when Trump won in 2016.

The black nazis, female popes, etc. No, Google isn’t neutral.